{"id":182591,"date":"2024-02-13T01:25:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T07:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/ford-says-it-has-a-skunk-works-team-trying-to-make-lower-cost-evs"},"modified":"2024-02-13T01:25:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T07:25:20","slug":"ford-says-it-has-a-skunk-works-team-trying-to-make-lower-cost-evs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/ford-says-it-has-a-skunk-works-team-trying-to-make-lower-cost-evs","title":{"rendered":"Ford says it has a \u2018Skunk Works\u2019 team trying to make lower-cost EVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ford-says-it-has-a-skunk-works-team-trying-to-make-lower-cost-evs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ford says it has a top-secret, high-powered team working to design its future electric vehicles. It\u2019s part of a quest to compete profitably against Tesla and lower cost EV makers from China.<\/p>\n<p>People in the market for an electric luxury vehicle can find plenty of options to choose from. That\u2019s because EV technology, particularly batteries, is expensive so it\u2019s easier for automakers to earn a profit on an Audi, Mercedes or Cadillac because people are used to paying more for those luxury car brands.<\/p>\n<p>Even among mainstream auto brands, like Ford, EVs tend to cost more. Take the Mustang Mach-E, for instance, with prices starting around $45,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford says it has a top-secret, high-powered team working to design its future electric vehicles. It\u2019s part of a quest to compete profitably against Tesla and lower cost EV makers from China. People in the market for an electric luxury vehicle can find plenty of options to choose from. That\u2019s because EV technology, particularly batteries, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}